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I'm not a big statistics guy, but sometimes statistics can be revealing.The following statistics are from the book 2020 Vision: Amazing Stories of What God is Doing Around the World, by Bill and Amy Stearns.As a qualification on some of the stats, I realize that definitions of Christians vary, and someone's claim to come to Christ, or to be a Christian, does not mean they really are.

A new version of the JESUS Film has been made with a special emphasis on reaching out to women, especially those from Middle Eastern and Eastern cultures. It’s called Magdalena: Released from Shame.

Here on the NT Gateway Blog, we've been keeping an eye for some years on the proposed Paul Verhoeven Jesus film. There has been nothing to report for a long time, but now it seems that Verhoeven has published his own Jesus book as a step on the road towards his Jesus film.

“You will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you.” (Isaiah 55:5) PRAYER REQUESTS for April 18, 2008: 1. Praise God for drawing people to Himself all over Indonesia. Recent reports from three Jesus Film teams show that God is responding to the prayers of His people for neighbors.

“You will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you.” (Isaiah 55:5) PRAYER REQUESTS for April 18, 2008: 1. Praise God for drawing people to Himself all over Indonesia. Recent reports from three Jesus Film teams show that God is responding to the prayers of His people for neighbors.

Why read the Bible? I am struggling to choose the right words here, because as you will learn soon, I do not believe that Bible 'study' is a biblical concept. That may be shocking to some of you, but in addition to that, the ability to 'read' the Bible was not something that many people were able to do until a few centuries ago.

Several years ago my wife and I got involved in an evangelistic outreach program centered on The Jesus Film. We went door-to-door in some cookie-cutter neighborhood and invited people to accept a free VHS copy of the movie about Jesus and then take a short postcard survey that they could send in postage paid.

They’re turning to Jesus in droves, as noted by Chuck Colson. According to the website Islam Watch, in Russia, some two million ethnic Muslims converted to Christianity last year. Ten thousand French Muslims converted, as did 35,000 Turkish Muslims. In India, approximately 10,000 people abandoned Islam for Christianity.

Mark Dornford-May’s Son of Man sets the Jesus story in the context of a modern, African township. Were Jesus to come to earth today, it’s not hard to imagine that this is the kind of place we’d find him, criticising the politics and corruption that leaves millions living in shacks.

Sexy Mallika to play companion of Jesus. Bollywood’s sexy starlet Mallika Sherawat has bagged herself a top-notch role in a big budget Hollywood flick.She will play the role of Saraswati in The Aquarian Gospel, an epic story about the missing years of Jesus Christ’s life, where he travelled from Israel through to India.